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Dutch ex-Brit tuba-playing gay computer scientist who regards 'woke' as a compliment. Entrepreneur since 1989, now working on TypeScript#SQL, a programming language written for and by web developers
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Seems like a good day to re-up this…. www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

I’ll be posting this today

Elon just did this…

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

Running short on Ketamine, or is his mind swimming in it?

“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.” MLK Jr

#MLKDay2025 #MLK #Stand #Justice #ChooseLove

State-owned and controlled media, as part of "small government", is necessary for "free speech". Not.

I wonder what would happen if his supporters, some of whom paid handsomely to attend the inauguration and are now being excluded "because it is cold outside", were to storm the Capitol?

True.

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s theonion.com/jealous...

One benefit of being older I guess

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers. See what changes are in store for your county. By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

2014: the movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary 2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.

I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Now that they destroyed their own neighborhood, the Maga/Elon trolls are rolling in to BlueSky. My recommendation is to block early, on the first offense, without explanation. Here are my rules why I block them: open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

"Grubby little control freak" -- Vivian Gemma Wilson's excellently accurate and succinct four word description of her father